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The pattern of cross-country human development is vividly researched for long at the international level. The authentic datasets and serious researches on inequality at the global scale have made the pattern prominent and unfolded the causes. However, the scenario is completely different when we scale down from national to provincial to district and sub-district levels. The pattern of inequality also gets heterogeneous owing to the complicated interaction of diverse factors. However, the effort of exploring this micro-spatial HD is essential to support the policy framing processes as the policymakers are presently getting more confident in decentralized methods of planning. This chapter will focus on vividly the necessity of micro-spatial analysis of HD and notes on how we should proceed.

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    Cartography is the science and arts of making maps combining the techniques and aesthetics as well for the purpose of representing the spatial information effectively. It has been witnessing a rapid change in its techniques of map making during the last few decades, especially the replacement of manual instrument-based drawings of maps with the computer-based digital map-making techniques which is often termed as ‘digital cartography’.

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    David Ricardo developed the theory in 1817 to explain the origin and nature of economic rent. He assumed the operation of the law of diminishing marginal returns in the case of cultivation of land. In the Ricardian theory it is assumed that land has no supply price and no cost of production. So rent is not a part of cost. It does not enter into cost and price. This means that from society’s point of view the entire return from land is a surplus earning.

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  1. Department of Geography, Dr. Meghnad Saha College, Itahar, 733128, West Bengal, India

    Mukunda Mishra

  2. Department of Geography, Presidency University, Kolkata, 700073, West Bengal, India

    Soumendu Chatterjee

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Table 2.3 A detailed information about the site surveyed for capturing primary data
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Mishra, M., Chatterjee, S. (2020). On Contouring Human Development. In: Contouring Human Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4083-7_2

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